Bron's 60th birthday hop with FANCY FOLDS!!

Hello and Welcome to another AWESOME blog hop to celebrate Bron's 60th birthday!!  I hope you've enjoyed all the amazingness every month from everyone!!

Bron is actually a cardmaking genius when it comes to Fancy Folds!!  You really need to look at her amazing creative projects on her blog - you'll be stupendously inspired!!  

This month, she has chosen the theme of Fancy Folds on her amazing Birthday Journey.  

I recently found a fun variation on an easel fold which is quite simple but looks really cool!!  You start with half of a piece of Crumb Cake cardstock cut length ways, and then it's scored at 14.5, 19.5 and 24.5cm.  The front of the easel is a square of 7.5 x 7.5cm which fits perfectly after you trim the corners at the front of the card.  

To embellish this fun fold, I've used the gorgeous Texture Chic designer paper at the front and back of the base of the card.  Inside the card and on the front I've used white.  My feature on the easel is actually a tag created using the Very Best Trio Punch for the corners.  This Cottage Rose flower was actually sitting on my craft table after being discarded from another project and it worked perfectly!!  I've coloured it using watercolour pencils and added some die cut old olive leaves behind.  

The stamp sets I've used are Cottage Rose and Ranunculus Romance with Sahara Sand, Early Espresso, Old Olive and some Poppy Parade used with a blending brush.

Isn't the gorgeous Natural Ribbon totally delicious on the top of my tag!!  I love the opulence and luxury this ribbon adds to any project!!  

Up next on our amazing hop this month is the talented Nikki - her work is always gorgeous.  Make sure you keep hopping to see all the fantastic projects!!

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining our Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Cottage Rose CTC#378

Hello and Welcome to our Sunday Night Blog Hop and Challenge CASEING the CATTY.

To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues.

This week, we are CASEING from pages 56 to 77 which feature the Love chapter!!  And my project is totally inspired by the great card right in the middle with the white colouring of the gorgeous flower on coloured cardstock.  It features the stunning Cottage Rose Bundle.  

My project has been converted to a gift bag using the gorgeous Delicate Details Treat Box which is so lovely and easy to put together.  They come already die cut with the adhesive already on them so all you do is put it together!! Easy Peasy.  

My focal point is the stunning flowers from Cottage Rose.  I've stamped it using Early Espresso ink and then coloured the flower using White Ink and a blender pen.  It's also been coloured using an Old Olive and Polished Pink Stampin' Blends Alcohol Markers.  Isn't the white ink just stunning on the Crumb Cake cardstock???  I just love it.  

Behind my main image I've added some die cut flowers from the Cottage Flowers dies and some of the totally gorgeous Rose Gold Foil.  Under the greeting is some fabulous Frayed Ribbon cut in half lengthwise and frayed even more for a lovely soft fringe!!  I've tied the other half of the ribbon at the top of the box for the closure.  

I've also lined the box with some Blushing Bride Cardstock so the die cut detail is more defined.  

Up next on our hop this week is the super lovely Rachel.   

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Perfect excuse to get together with friends being creative - click to find out more.

Come join our team and have fun creating with us!!  

Check out the gorgeousness inside!!  You'll love it all!! 

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

Travel on the Social Stamping Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to our weekly Social Stamping Blog Hop!!  This brilliant idea came from the amazing Kelly Kent and has allowed a bunch of us to share our creativity with each other and with you!

This week, the theme is Travel.  If you get lost on the hop, just click on the image above to see the list of everyone in the hop to continue on your way!!  If you've arrived from the wonderful Lisa, then welcome!!   Keep hopping around to see some wonderful creations!  

These are some cards featuring fancy folds and the stunning World of Good paper, that are for my cardmaking class coming up!  This suite is just perfect for a travel theme - maybe there will be lots of projects using these products to inspire you on the hop?

This amazing fold is the Bay Window Fold inspired by the amazing Lou and I have used it to feature the stunning designs on the paper, as well as the awesome brass foil globe.  There's a piece of vellum behind the earth to make it stand out from the paper a bit more.  

The second card is a large z-fold card with the world map paper featuring as the star of the card!! There's also a little piece of crumb cake that has been embossed with the Old World Paper embossing folder - I love this effect!!

And the last Mossy Meadow card is a split panel card which helps show off the paper too.  

I love these really cool masculine cards - and my husband's birthday is very soon so you can see why I was inspired to use these wonderful colours, stamps and papers!!  

Up next on our hop is the amazing Elizabeth who is so very artistic!!  

If you get lost along the way, or you want to see all the blog post list, head to the host post for Social Stamping here.  

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!)

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in the Stampin' Up! Business opportunity - contact me to find out how.

and Vintage again!

This is my smaller version of the vintage thank you card I made recently - so it share many of the same features, but on a smaller scale.